Whoosh! After the drama of the internet last week, I think that this week's class went very well! We started the class with discussing in their groups from the TPACK activity last week what their favorite and least favorite activities were from the wiki. They had to defend their choices from their point of view and then as a team, decide what activity best exemplified TPACK. In this case, it was the activities that were also in the top half of how they had rated the sites within their role. The conversations that occurred afterwards were great! Some groups actually identified the same best activity as another groups least. It was a content heavy activity and a good conversation between the students. Turns out there were some elementary/secondary beliefs that we needed to sort out!
From there, I moved the conversation to SAMR. I believe that SAMR applies to when teachers are within the TPACK sweet spot. At school, I use SAMR instead of TPACK because of this. We had a good conversation about the contextual nature of SAMR during class today as well as how SAMR and Blooms taxonomy are intertwined. To finish up, I asked students to pick 3 tools on the SAMR/Blooms wheel and say why they think each tool was placed where it was. I'm hoping that these first two weeks of class help to lay the groundwork and theoretical ideas for them to base their work off of the rest of the semester!
Friday, January 31, 2014
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Week 2 - TPACK
This week for class, I asked students to read the article "Grounded Technology Integration" by Harris and Hofer. This article is one of my favorites to use with teachers as it is approachable for them and also outlines the ideas of TPACK and SAMR without getting two far into either framework. I think that Grounded Technology Integration explains the TPACK framework in that good teaching and technology use implements technology that supports teaching strategies relative to the content knowledge that is necessary for students. It also speaks about how teachers much plan the content (standards) first, then the learning context and finally the technology to support both of these structures.
The students seemed to like the 8 continua that Harris and Hofer identify for planning with technology in the classroom. As we talked about the basis of the article in class, students made connections to prior learning about TPACK in their other courses as well. After using the presentation linked on the class site, I had students break into groups of three to complete an activity to further discuss and define TPACK. Each student was assigned a role, technophile, pedogogical expert, and content expert and asked to peruse a number of different classroom activities and lessons and evaluate them based on their role. Unfortunately, this is where it all went wrong and we lost internet access in the classroom. To change the activity for students to still be able to participate, I asked them to take notes on a shared doc with their teams over the next week and we will recap TPACK on the 29th!
In retrospect, I probably needed a back up plan in case we lose connectivity again! I will have to see how this process worked next week and evaluate and possibly reform the activity for class next week!
The students seemed to like the 8 continua that Harris and Hofer identify for planning with technology in the classroom. As we talked about the basis of the article in class, students made connections to prior learning about TPACK in their other courses as well. After using the presentation linked on the class site, I had students break into groups of three to complete an activity to further discuss and define TPACK. Each student was assigned a role, technophile, pedogogical expert, and content expert and asked to peruse a number of different classroom activities and lessons and evaluate them based on their role. Unfortunately, this is where it all went wrong and we lost internet access in the classroom. To change the activity for students to still be able to participate, I asked them to take notes on a shared doc with their teams over the next week and we will recap TPACK on the 29th!
In retrospect, I probably needed a back up plan in case we lose connectivity again! I will have to see how this process worked next week and evaluate and possibly reform the activity for class next week!
Friday, January 17, 2014
Week 1 - Course Introductions
This week was the first week of CI 302 for the semester. It's probably safe to assume that today was the easiest class that I will have all semester - in prep and in teaching. We started with introductions, a read through the syllabus and schedule, expectations and my teaching philosophy. I can already tell that teaching this class will stretch me professionally as I learn and grow with the students. Here is a link to the website for the course. I'm hoping to model a modified LMS through using Google Sites rather than a traditional LMS like Blackboard, Moodle, etc.
This week I also had students set up their blogs for the semester. I gave them the choice of Blogger or Edublogs. Many chose to use Blogger because it is connected to their Google account. This blog will serve as their reflective vehicle for the semester as well as provide me formative feedback on their connections and understandings throughout the course!
Finally, I asked the students to complete a form to help me get to know them this semester. I asked about what they hoped to learn in CI 302 as well as the tools that interested them the most. This should be a fun semester!
This week I also had students set up their blogs for the semester. I gave them the choice of Blogger or Edublogs. Many chose to use Blogger because it is connected to their Google account. This blog will serve as their reflective vehicle for the semester as well as provide me formative feedback on their connections and understandings throughout the course!
Finally, I asked the students to complete a form to help me get to know them this semester. I asked about what they hoped to learn in CI 302 as well as the tools that interested them the most. This should be a fun semester!
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